Description

Returns or sets a value that determines whether to include bearer bars around the barcode.

Syntax

HRESULT get_BearerBars(HANDLE handle, VARIANT_BOOL* pVal);
HRESULT put_BearerBars(HANDLE handle, VARIANT_BOOL val);

Remarks

Bearer bars (see below) are horizontal bars printed across the top and bottom of the barcode image. Bearer bars can help avoid partial reads should the reader move off the top or bottom of the code. Only certain symbologies require bearer bars (for example Interleaved 2 of 5) as the start and stop characters in most bar codes make bearer bars unnecessary.

In Barcode DLL the following symbologies can have bearer bars: Codabar, Code11, Code25, Code128, UCC/EAN-128, Code39, Code39 HIBC, Code 39 Full ASCII, Code93, Interleaved 2 of 5, MSI/Plessey and Telepen. Other symbologies ignore this property.